Joe Russo has dropped the surprise original “Auld Lang Syne.” The drummer released the studio recording—whose title is play on the traditional New Year’s Eve classic—on his website earlier today. The song was produced, recorded and mixed by Sam Cohen at Brooklyn, N.Y’s Jupiter Recording and mastered by D James Goodwin at Woodstock, N.Y.’s The Isokon. Russo provides lead vocals on the track, as well as piano, organ, mellotron, wurlitzer, clavinet, drums and percussion. Cohen jumps between electric guitar, bass and background vocals while longtime Antibalas member and current Arcade Fire saxophonist Stuart Bogie plays saxophone, flute, bass and clarinet.
Russo will re-release his solo debut, PHÉR•BŎNEY, which came out earlier this year, on vinyl February 7via Royal Potato Family. While Russo plays most of the instruments on thealbum, Bogie, Cohen’s former Yellowbirds collaborator Josh Kaufman and a fewother guests appear on the album, too.
